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Got a client who wants to make their own Blu-ray discs and needs to know which office PCs they can check them on? (or is honest enough to say they want to watch movies on a plane?) Check what discs they can watch and whether advanced features will work with this Cyberlink utility.
http://www.cyberlink.com/english/support/blu-ray_support/diagnosis.jsp read more
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Business Continuity
Staying up while you recover: Double-Take Cloud provides easy server protection
Building a backup and disaster recovery service can be time consuming and costly. You need access to a data centre where you can site racks, servers, storage and have sufficient bandwidth to support the service. Alternatively, you could just take advantage of the cloud and leave your cloud supplier to take care of all that.read more -
The Business
Partner Focus: Peter-Hortensius-Lenovo
The computer maker Lenovo has 9% of the worldwide PC market, and in 2009 it ranked as the world’s fast-est-growing PC company. In the three months to December 31st, Lenovo grew sales by 42%, against an industry av-erage of 17%. We asked Lenovo what that means for small business resellers.read more
Small Business Applications for Blackberry
BlackBerry is more than a phone with secure email; it’s also an application platform, with plenty of business-focused applications and tools. Even though App World adds a one-stop shop for trials and downloads you still want to be involved in recommending business BlackBerry apps to your customers, so here are our top picks.
Sharepoint Comes of Age
Giving your customers a computing environment that will do exactly what they want is one of the best ways to make them happy, and one of the most effective ways to achieve this is with a combination of Microsoft SharePoint and Office.
Spacemonger - pinpoint what’s taking up the space on your hard drives
The best thing about Spacemonger (www.sixty-five.cc/sm, $24.95) isn’t that its intuitive display of how space is used on a hard drive allows you to pinpoint what’s taking up the space on your hard drives in a matter of seconds. The screen area shows a colour-coded and hierarchical treemap where the size of the box for each directory or file is in proportion to the space it takes on the drive. Hover the mouse over any element to see a popup with more detail, and scroll the mouse wheel to zoom down to level of individual files.
Sponsored feature - Would the last person out please lock the door
Security is only as strong as its weakest link.With office space at a premium and ever increasing regulatory demands on retaining information, businesses have had to become more ‘inventive’ when finding somewhere to store their paper filing and archives.
Mobile email with Linux email servers
Not every business runs Microsoft Exchange. Maybe the company isn’t based around a Microsoft infrastructure or Exchange is too expensive or they use something else for historical reasons.Deploying Virtual Desktops using VDI and VMware ESX Server
There is no question that 90% of the work in deploying VDI is in the planning and preparation.
Business Intelligence for Small Businesses with SQL Server
In these times of economic uncertainty, it is vital for your customers to understand how their business is performing. Are they losing customers? If so which ones, and are they gaining others? What do the new customers buy?
Let financing take the strain
Customers are looking for alternatives to bank loans and retained capital to fund IT purchases. Leasing and vendor finance is one option, but how should IT consultants navigate the financial maze?Controlling anti-social networking – a guide to blocking employees access to Facebook, MySpace and more.
Right now, your customers’ employees are looking at Facebook and surfing MySpace. If that doesn’t worry their employers, it should.
Social networking has only gained popularity in the last three or four years, but it is generating the same concerns that instant messaging did at the start of the decade.
Rebuilding a NAS appliance RAID array
Disks fail, and RAID arrays need rebuilding. Be prepared for the worst – and keep your clients’ data safe.
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